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While source code of software and algorithms depicts an essential component in all fields of modern research involving data analysis and processing steps, it is uncommonly shared upon publication of results throughout disciplines. Simple guidelines to generate reproducible source code have been published. Still, code optimization supporting its rep...
Open data provide the scientific community and other stakeholders with unrestricted access to data. Open data serve as a foundation for reproducing research findings, while also facilitating collaboration and enabling novel discoveries. However, open data practices are still not commonly applied. To contribute to the implementation of open data str...
Der Cluster Forschungsdaten spielt eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Koordinierung des Zusammenspiels von Forschungsinformationssystemen, Forschungsdatenmanagement und digitalen Technologien/Infrastrukturen. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf der Identifizierung von Synergien und Potenzialen für eine ressourcenoptimierte Zusammenarbeit zwischen de...
Within the FAIR Data Austria project, supported by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF), a national strategy has been established to advance the creation of tailored Data Stewardship solutions for the Austrian context. The strategy, formalized as a toolbox, delineates various Data Steward models, corresponding competenc...
Das Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung (BMBWF) hat 2020 im Rahmen der österreichweiten Ausschreibung „Vorhaben zur digitalen und sozialen Transformation in der Hochschulbildung“ insgesamt 50 Millionen Euro Fördermittel für 34 in einem Begutachtungsverfahren ausgewählte Projekte vergeben. Gefördert werden zukunftsweisende Koop...
In an age dominated by digital information, the importance of accessible and well-managed research data cannot be overstated. The FAIR Data Austria project is at the forefront of pioneering initiatives that cultivate a culture of data sharing and collaboration, adhering to the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusabili...
Der vorliegende Beitrag zur Verankerung von Open Educational Resources (OER) im österreichischen Bildungssystem bietet Einblicke zum derzeitigen Stand des Themas an österreichischen Hochschulen. Er wurde von der bei fnma angesiedelten und von Martin Ebner geleiteten Arbeitsgruppe Open Educational Resources (AG OER) verfasst, welche seit mehreren Ja...
Mit den Erkenntnissen aus zwei vorangegangenen Workshops, welche sich mit den Modellen für und Kompetenzen von Data Stewards beschäftigt hatten, trafen sich die „FAIR Data Austria“-Projektmitarbeiter*innen im Juli 2021 zu einem weiteren Workshop, um Ausbildungsangebote für Data Stewards an österreichischen Universitäten zu diskutieren. Zu diesem Zw...
This report offers some reflections for a better understanding of the realization of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) at a local level, describing the implementation of the newly established Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation and the EOSC Support Office Austria.
This article gives an overview of the FAIR Data Austria project objectives and current results. In collaboration with our project partners, we work on the development and establishment of tools for managing the lifecycle of research data, including machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs), repositories for long-term archiving of research r...
Vortrag im Rahmen der „ONLINE Coffee Lectures: Forschungsdatenmanagement“ der Universität Hildesheim am 20. Oktober 2021 über die Hintergründe, Ziele und Aktivitäten des Projekts FAIR Data Austria.
Im April 2021 trafen sich die Projektmitarbeiter*innen von „FAIR Data Austria“ zu einem gemeinsamen Workshop, um die Kompetenzen der Data Stewards zu identifizieren und sie den drei Data Steward Modellen zuzuordnen. Diese Modelle wurden in einem vorangegangenen Workshop im Oktober 2020, im Hinblick auf den österreichischen Kontext, erarbeitet und b...
Research Data Management (RDM) promises to make research outputs more transparent, findable, and reproducible. Strategies to streamline data management across disciplines are of key importance. This paper presents results of an institutional survey (N = 258) at a medium‐sized Austrian university with a STEM focus, supplemented with interviews (N =...
Research Data Management (RDM) promises to make research outputs more transparent, findable, and reproducible. Strategies to streamline data management across disciplines are of key importance. This paper presents the results of an institutional survey (N=258) at Graz University of Technology, supplemented with interview data (N=18), to give an ove...
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In this paper, we study the process of opinion dynamics and consensus building in online collaboration systems, in which users interact with each other following their common interests and their social profiles. Specifically, we are interested in how users similarity and their social status in the community, as well as the interplay of t...
In this paper we assess the semantic stability of Wikipedia by investigating the dynamics of Wikipedia articles’ revisions over time. In a semantically stable system, articles are infrequently edited, whereas in unstable systems, article content changes more frequently. In other words, in a stable system, the Wikipedia community has reached consens...
Creative group work can be supported by collaborative search and annotation of Web resources. In this setting, it is important to help individuals both stay fluent in generating ideas of what to search next (i.e., maintain ideational fluency) and stay consistent in annotating resources (i.e., maintain organization). Based on a model of human memory...
More and more learning activities take place online in a self-directed manner. Therefore, just as the idea of self-tracking activities for fitness purposes has gained momentum in the past few years, tools and methods for awareness and self-reflection on one's own online learning behavior appear as an emerging need for both formal and informal learn...
The growing dissatisfaction with the traditional scholarly communication process and publishing practices as well as increasing usage and acceptance of ICT and Web 2.0 technologies in research have resulted in the proliferation of alternative review, publishing and bibliometric methods. The EU-funded project OpenUP addresses key aspects and challen...
Classic resource recommenders like Collaborative Filtering treat users as just another entity, thereby neglecting non-linear user-resource dynamics that shape attention and interpretation. SUSTAIN, as an unsupervised human category learning model, captures these dynamics. It aims to mimic a learner's categorization behavior. In this paper, we use t...
In this paper, we analyze the influence of social status on opinion dynamics and consensus building in collaboration networks. To that end, we simulate the diffusion of opinions in empirical networks and take into account both the network structure and the individual differences of people reflected through their social status. For our simulations,...
This report provides a summary of the work done in Year 3 in the Learning Layers project from the perspective of Work Package 5 (WP5). The main objective of WP5 is to develop a Social Semantic Network (SSN) that enables situated and contextualized learning to support scaling of informal workplace learning and meaning making, as well as scaffolding...
In this paper, we analyze the influence of social status on opinion dynamics and consensus building in collaboration networks. To that end, we simulate the diffusion of opinions in empirical collaboration networks by taking into account both the network structure and the individual differences of people reflected through their social status. For ou...
Classic resource recommenders like Collaborative Filtering (CF) treat users
as being just another entity, neglecting non-linear user-resource dynamics
shaping attention and interpretation. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid
recommendation strategy that refines CF by capturing these dynamics. The
evaluation results reveal that our approach sub...
Accessing web-based information systems such as online encyclopedias is driven by user information needs. As soon as users satisfy their needs for certain information they live the site of such online encyclopedias. Hyperlinks comprised by an online encyclopedia play an important role on guiding users to corresponding articles which explain certain...
In recent years, a number of approaches to improve the overall navigability of web-based information systems have been introduced -- breadcrumbs and automatic linking algorithms represent two exemplary approaches. While evaluation of such approaches is a complex and multidimensional endeavor, involving cognitive, user-interface and other issues, th...
In recent years, online collaboration tools such as wikis have experienced a tremendous expansion. Their success and popularity is due to their simple and efficient content creation facilities. Moreover, the formatting syntax is basically easy to learn allowing users to easily create and edit web content and thus share knowledge with each other. De...
Although the success of online encyclopedias such as Wiki-pedia is indisputable, researchers have questioned usefulness of Wikipedia in educational settings. Problems such as copy&paste syndrome, unchecked quality, or fragmentation of knowledge have been recognized as serious drawbacks for a wide spread application of Wikipedia in universities or h...
